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Friday, August 15, 2008

Contributor Elliot Elam kindly sent me the following Searle illustrated ad that he found in the Taschen published 'All American Ads of the 70s'

Here are some more Searle ads from the 70s.

'Two versions of a Christmas advertisement for panty
hose.Watercolor and ink on illustration board, each signed lower right.
Each 350x485 mm; 13 3/4 x19 inches' -Skinners

And here's one from 1967 for Rose's Lime Juice.

(New Yorker 11/4/1967)

Suntory Old Whisky 1981

These are much earlier-1950

1969 Minolta SR-T 101 Camera

(Thanks to Brian Sibley for the early Guinness ad above)

'. . . here are a couple of obscure small-ads with drawings by Ronald Searle. These are taken from the June and January issues of 'Stitchcraft' magazine, from 1955. It must have been quite an interesting brief, to come up with ideas illustrating 'a clear case for Cash's woven name tapes.' These two ideas are fairly straightforward but they're nice drawings, and I particularly like that logo. The company is still trading, with a very similar logo, today. ' From the Non-Stick Plans blog.

(Ronald Searle tells me this is wrongly identified-it's NOT his work.)

Cartoon Brew editor Amid Amidi is in possession of this beautiful cover illustration for the Big City

Uli Meyer in London just started his collection of Searle originals with this beauty.

Jesús Sánchez gave me a link to a gallery of his Searle originals. (If there is anybody else out there who would like to contribute photos, scans or any Searle related material please email me at the address in my Blogger profile.)

'Sorry Madam, no smoking in the museum' 1955

The above is a refined version of a gag Searle made over ten years earlier in 1944, below.

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